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Can he? In general, can/do popes vote in their home countries?

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[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 4 points 2 years ago

I know The Vatican constitutes a state, but i don't think it constitutes a country.

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State, is a landlocked independent country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

They were given a tax-free country from Mussolini for being chill about the whole Holocaust thing

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I know we hate religion here. But Jesus Christ. There's enough Dodgy aspects of the Catholic church without making shit up.

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

??? That's literally what happened. History is stranger than fiction. And speak for yourself mate, I have no problems with religion.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Considering the Lateran treaties came before Hitlers rise to power. I doubt that.

[-] DasRundeEtwas@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

It is a indipendant state/country, with a ruling king, enforced borders, its own passports and even a standing army.

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

If religious victory gets hard, domination is always an option

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

What the international law cares about is "sovereign states" or "sovereign subjects of international law" not countries which is a much more informal term. Sovereign states technically don't even need a territory - 122 states have official diplomatic relations with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (not to be confused with the Republic of Malta) which has had no territory since 1799.

[-] LegionEris@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago

On a global scale they are synonyms xd

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which is made even more confusing by British “countries” (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇯🇪).

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Eh, the British "countries" are countries in name only. They don't really fit any of the usual things people would think of as constituting a country.

In reality, they're constituted like less than the state of a federation like the US, Germany, or Australia. A state has a constitutional right to its governance, and cedes some power to the federal government. The devolved governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are rights granted by Westminster, and could be taken away at will. Nothing Biden, or Trump, or Mike Johnson wanted could ever take away Maine's right to its own governance like that.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I know. Hence quotation marks.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

What do you think the difference is?

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